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Germs in the family : the short- and long-term consequences of intra-household disease spread

Daysal, N. Meltem; Ding, Hui; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - 2025

Preschool-aged children get sick frequently and spread disease to other family members. Despite the universality of … order and within-municipality variation in respiratory disease prevalence among young children, and find lasting … differential impacts of early-life respiratory disease exposure on younger siblings’ earnings, educational attainment, chronic …

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Population sorting and human capital accumulation

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2021

This article analyzes the effect of population sorting on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are...

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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...

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The contribution of human capital and its policies to per capita income in Europe and the OECD

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, David - 2020

This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...

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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...

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The role of human capital in structural change and growth in an open economy : innovative and absorptive capacity effects

Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran - 2021

Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...

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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are either negative and close to zero or positive and an order of magnitude larger than the range of estimates derived from the...

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less advanced and less wealthy economy combined with income...

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Unified growth theory : roots of growth and inequality in the wealth of nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

What sparked humanity’s leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified Growth Theory explores the evolution of societies over the entire course of human history. It uncovers the universal wheels of change that have governed the journey of...

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